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BENI, Congo (AP) ” A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo™s eastern Beni city, Congo™s ministry of health announced Monday, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak. Testing by a lab at country™s National Institute for Biomedical Research in Goma confirmed that the case was the Ebola Zaire strain and was genetically linked to Congo™s 10th outbreak in the Ituri and North Kivu provinces from 2018 to 2020 that killed more than 2,000 people, the ministry said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Demonstrators face off with police during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Sake, some 15 miles (24 kms) west of Goma, Wednesday July 27, 2022. Officials say more than 15 people have been killed and dozens injured during the demonstrations against the UN mission in the country, heading into their third day. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Sake, some 15 miles (24 kms) west of Goma, Wednesday July 27, 2022. Officials say more than 15 people have been killed and dozens injured during the demonstrations against the UN mission in the country, heading into their third day. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” Congo's military on Thursday accused the M23 rebels of breaching a cease-fire, saying that they killed at least 50 people in a massacre earlier this week and warning that the army would defend civilians from attacks.The statement comes less than a week after regional leaders issued a cease-fire ultimatum at a summit in Angola, saying M23 also needed to withdraw from the towns it seized in recent months or else an East African regional force would intervene. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” Congo's government dramatically increased the death toll from a massacre last week they blamed on M23 rebels, saying Monday that 270 people had been killed in an attack that broke a fragile cease-fire agreement. M23's chairman challenged the figure and accused Congo's government of creating a diversion from other atrocities in the region that he says have been committed by government soldiers and their allies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” Police dispersed about 100 demonstrators in Congo™s eastern town of Beni on Monday, a day after U.N. peacekeepers returning to duty killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others at the border with Uganda. Dalzon Mikundi, president of the Beni Urban Youth Council, said they want the U.N. to cover medical care for the victims wounded by U.N. peacekeepers amid the ongoing demonstrations demanding that the peacekeepers leave Congo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” U.N. peacekeepers returning from leave opened fire at a border post between Congo and Uganda, killing at least two people and wounding at least 15 more, the U.N. mission and Congo government officials said Sunday. Tensions between the population in restive eastern Congo and the U.N. peacekeeping force have risen dramatically in the past week, with nearly 20 killed in protests calling for the force to leave the region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” Congo™s military accused Rwanda of œno less than an invasion after M23 rebels captured a key town on Monday. The military vowed that Congolese forces would defend their homeland, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two Central African neighbors.The statement from Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu province, came hours after the town of Bunagana fell into the hands of the M23. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” Congo™s military accused Rwanda of œno less than an invasion after M23 rebels captured a key town on Monday. The military vowed that Congolese forces would defend their homeland, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two Central African neighbors.The statement from Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu province, came hours after the town of Bunagana fell into the hands of the M23. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FILE ” Emma, 3, who was displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and FARDC government forces, finds refuge in a school North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 25, 2022. A new U.N. report says rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least 131 people and inflicted "unspeakable violence" against civilians. The findings published this week in a preliminary investigation by the United Nations, accuses M23 rebels of killing men, women and children in two villages in Congo's Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province last month. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file ) BENI, Congo (AP) ” Arbitrarily shooting, stabbing, raping and abducting people, rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least 131 people and inflicted œunspeakable violence against civilians, says a new U.N. report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FILE - In this Anifa stands in her home in the eastern Congo town of Goma on Friday, March 5, 2021. A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims affecting dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country. (AP Photo/Kudra Maliro, File) FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims affecting dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country. Anifa, a young Congolese woman who worked at an Ebola treatment center in Beni during the outbreak, said she could not understand WHO™s seeming excusal of misconduct.  (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KIBUMBA, Congo (AP) ” Eastern Congo's M23 rebels retreated Friday from some of the territory it held, the group's first withdrawal since it began seizing swaths of land more than a year ago.The rebels left the Kibumba area and its positions were taken over by the East African Regional Force ” a multinational force charged with protecting the area. This retreat is in line with an agreement made last month at a summit in Angola, Lawrence Kanyuka the M23's political spokesman said in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” Arbitrarily shooting, stabbing, raping and abducting people, rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least 131 people and inflicted œunspeakable violence against civilians, says a new U.N. report.The M23 rebel group killed men, women and children in two villages in Congo's Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province last month, according to a preliminary investigation by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in Congo and MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo dismissed the U.N. agency’s own efforts to excuse its handling of such misconduct as “an absurdity” on Monday, saying they were not satisfied that no senior officials have been fired.Some of the victimized women say — nearly four years later — they are still waiting for the WHO to terminate those responsible or be offered any financial compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

M23 rebels prepare to leave after a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. M23 rebels retreated from a village in eastern Congo Friday in the group's first withdrawal from an occupied village since it seized swaths of land months ago. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) Surrounded by members of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), Willy Ngoma, spokesman of the M23, center, arrives for a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. M23 rebels retreated from a village in eastern Congo Friday in the group's first withdrawal from an occupied village since it seized swaths of land months ago. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ” A woman who says she was victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims involving dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country.On Monday, the AP reported on a confidential U.N. report that excused senior staffers for their mishandling of the case due to a œloophole in how WHO defines victims of such behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” Congo's M23 rebels have seized control of the eastern town of Bunagana, residents said Monday, in what appears to be the insurgents' latest gain in its weeks-long offensive against the military.After a night of violent fighting, the rebels took hold of the town around 8 a.m., according to Innocent Ndagije, a civic leader in Bunagana. People fleeing the town reported seeing more rebels coming across the nearby border from Uganda, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” Arbitrarily shooting, stabbing, raping and abducting people, rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least 131 people and inflicted œunspeakable violence against civilians, says a new U.N. report.The M23 rebel group killed men, women and children in two villages in Congo's Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province last month, according to a preliminary investigation by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in Congo and MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country's army. A group linked to Islamic extremists was suspected of being responsible for a bomb that went off in the Pentecostal church in the North Kivu province town of Kasindi, military spokesperson Anthony Mwalushayi told The Associated Press by phone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BENI, Congo (AP) ” At least five people, including two policemen, were killed in an attack on a prison in which about 750 inmates escaped in Congo™s eastern Butembo town, local officials said Wednesday. Rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces attacked the Kakwangura prison early Wednesday during a transfer of prisoners, said Capt. Anthony Mwalushay, spokesman for the Congolese army in Beni. Three ADF attackers burned to death in the assault, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ” A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims involving dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country. On Monday, the AP reported on a confidential U.N. report that excused senior staffers for their mishandling of the case due to a œloophole in how WHO defines victims of such behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country's army. A group linked to Islamic extremists was suspected of being responsible for a bomb that went off in the Pentecostal church in the North Kivu province town of Kasindi, military spokesperson Anthony Mwalushayi told The Associated Press by phone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” Congolese fighter jets began bombing rebel targets Tuesday in the country's embattled east, escalating its fight against the M23 group that the government alleges has been advancing with help from neighboring Rwanda.Jean Claude Bambaze, president of Rutshuru's civil society, told The Associated Press that aerial bombardments were reported in the villages of Chanzu and Musungati, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Rutshuru. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FILE - People displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and FARDC government forces gather North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 25, 2022. Hundreds of thousands of people have been uprooted from their homes by fighting that began over a year ago in eastern Congo between M23 rebels, militias and government forces. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) BENI, Congo (AP) ” Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. Eastern Congo's M23 rebels had attacked her village, killing scores of civilians. She and others fled for their lives, she said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FILE - Health workers wearing protective suits tend to to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo™s eastern Beni city, Congo™s ministry of health announced Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) BENI, Congo (AP) ” A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo™s eastern Beni city, Congo™s ministry of health announced Monday, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOMA, Congo (AP) ” Congo™s military accused Rwanda of œno less than an invasion after M23 rebels captured a key town on Monday. The military vowed that Congolese forces would defend their homeland, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two Central African neighbors.The statement from Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu province, came hours after the town of Bunagana fell into the hands of the M23. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FILE - In this Anifa stands in her home in the eastern Congo town of Goma on Friday, March 5, 2021. A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims affecting dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country. (AP Photo/Kudra Maliro, File) FILE - The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims affecting dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country. Anifa, a young Congolese woman who worked at an Ebola treatment center in Beni during the outbreak, said she could not understand WHO™s seeming excusal of misconduct.  (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]